text: Taylor’s 1966 solution to internal and external flow of a sphere induced by an electric field was the first to provide an argument that accounted for pressure induced by fluid flow both inside the droplet and in the external fluid field. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Taylor argued that surface tension and a uniform internal pressure could not balance the spatially varying normal stress on a droplet interface that was resulted from the presence of a steady, uniform electric field. He posited that in order for a droplet interface to remain in a non-deformed state in the presence of an electric field, there must be fluid flow both inside and outside the droplet interface. He developed a solution for the internal and external flow field using a streamfunction approach similar to that of creeping flow past a sphere. Taylor confirmed the validity of his solution by comparing it to images from flow visualization studies that observed circulation both inside and outside the droplet interface.